St James United Methodist Church
St James United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 720 Broad St in Sumter, SC 29150-3304. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
St. James UMC: Connecting people to Christ through faith, service, and love.
St. James UMC seeks to be the heart of the Woodland Heights community and beyond. Our ministry is rooted in the greatest commandment, a love of God and of neighbor. Love always involves action. We as individuals are committed to being and making Disciples of Christ for the transformation of the world both locally and across the globe.
720 Broad St, Sumter, SC, 29150-3304Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
Phone: (803) 773-4983 · Website: https://www.stjamesspartanburg.org/staff-bios
St James United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Ministries at St James United Methodist Church
- Local and Global Missions
- Local Missions
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The community around St James United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (14.4–30.1%)
- Unemployment: 10.7% (3.5–17.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (7.3–18.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St James United Methodist Church
- Iglesia Pentecostés MMM Sumter, SC — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Plaza Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Salt and Light Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wise Drive Church of Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- City of Refuge Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sumter Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oasis Church - Sumter — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Reid Chapel AME Church — 1.1 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
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